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Lisa Angell
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Lisa Angell is a French singer who represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with the song Noubliez pas. From the ages of 11 to 14, Angell competed in several talent shows during the Nice Carnvial. She was declared the winner for four consecutive years, at the age of 15, she began classical singing training at the Conservatory of Nice but she quit shortly after. However she continued singing by performing in bars in the Côte dAzur. Angell settled in Paris in 2001 where she met Didier Barbelivien, the experience was not convincing and Angell went back to the Côte dAzur. In 2009, Dani Lary invited her to his show Le Château des secrets and this collaboration resulted in another song, this time with Patrick Sébastien in the studio of Le plus grand cabaret du monde. The latter proposed her to perform on Les années bonheur, and produced and it peaked at number 31 in France and number 86 in Belgium. Produced by Philippe Swan, her second album Des mots… was released in 2013, preceding the album, the first single was Je saurai taimer. It was a cover of Mélanie Cohls song that is the French adaptation by Philippe Swan of The Power of Love by Jennifer Rush, since September the same year, she has participated regularly in the weekly show Les chansons dabord on France 3. For the album Nos fiançailles, France/Portugal by Tony Carreira, Angell accompanies him to make a duo singing Loiseau et lenfant and her third album Frou-Frou was released on 21 April 2014. This album of covers pays tribute to female performers of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, on 23 February 2015, Lisa Angell was announced to represent France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Vienna on 23 May 2015, with the song Noubliez pas. France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015

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Anggun
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Anggun Cipta Sasmi is an Indonesian and French-naturalised singer-songwriter. Born in Jakarta, she began performing at the age of seven, with the help of famed Indonesian producer Ian Antono, in 1986 Anggun released her first rock-influenced studio album, Dunia Aku Punya. She became further well known with the single Mimpi, which was listed as one of the 150 Greatest Indonesian Songs of All Time by Rolling Stone. She followed it with a series of singles and three studio albums, which established her as one of the most prominent Indonesian rock stars of the early 1990s. Anggun left Indonesia in 1994 to pursue an international career, after two years struggling in London and Paris, Anggun met French producer Erick Benzi and signed to Sony Music Entertainment. Her first international album, Snow on the Sahara, was released in 33 countries, the album spawned her signature hit Snow on the Sahara, which reached number one in several countries. Since her international breakthrough, Anggun has released five English-language studio albums and six French-language studio albums and she represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan, with the song Echo. She joined the panel of talent shows X Factor Indonesia, Indonesias Got Talent and Asias Got Talent. Anggun is the Asian artist with the highest album sales outside Asia, with her releases being certified gold and she is the first Indonesian artist to have success in European and American record charts. Aside from her career, Anggun has been involved in numerous environmental. Anggun was born and raised in Jakarta to a native Indonesian family and she is the second child and first daughter of Darto Singo, a Javanese writer, and Dien Herdina, a housewife from the Yogyakartan royal family. Her full name means grace born of a dream in Balinese, despite being a Muslim, Anggun was sent to a Catholic school to receive a better elementary education. At the age of seven, Anggun began receiving highly disciplined instruction in singing from her father and she trained daily, learning various vocal techniques. To help further develop her career, her mother began serving as her manager, accepting singing offers, at the age of nine, Anggun began to write her own songs and recorded her first childrens album. As a preteen, Anggun was influenced by Western rock music artists, at the age of twelve, she released her first official studio album, Dunia Aku Punya. The album was produced by Ian Antono, an Indonesian rock musician, however, the album failed to establish her popularity. Angguns fame continued to increase with the release of subsequent singles, most notably Tua Tua Keladi, after a string of successful singles, Anggun released the studio albums Anak Putih Abu Abu and Nocturno. The former earned her the Most Popular Indonesian Artist 1990–1991 award, in 1992, Anggun began a relationship with Michel de Gea, a French engineer, whom she had met the year before in Kalimantan while touring

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Isabelle Aubret
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Isabelle Aubret is a French singer. In 1968, she returned to the contest, again representing France, finishing third, and singing La source with music by Daniel Faure and lyrics by Henri Dijan, Aubret was a participant in the French national heats for Eurovision in other years. Her first attempt was in 1961 with the song Le gars de nimporte où, another runner-up spot came Aubrets way in 1970 when she teamed up with Daniel Bératta for the song Olivier, Olivia. She was not as successful with her 1976 effort, Je te connais déjà which finished out of seven songs in the second semi-final. Her final challenge for Eurovision was in 1983 with the patriotic France, France which took her to third place

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Frida Boccara
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Boccara was born in Casablanca, Morocco, into a Jewish family of Italian origin that lived in Tunisia before they settled down in Morocco. When she was 18, she moved from Casablanca to Paris, France, Boccara also had a brother and a sister in show business, composers Jean-Michel Braque and Lina Boccara. Her son, Tristan Boccara, was born in the mid-1970s, in 1964, Boccara had submitted the song Autrefois to the French Eurovision Song Contest selection panel, but she was unsuccessful. Five years later, at the Eurovision Song Contest 1969, held in Madrid, Spain, she represented France performing Un jour, un enfant – music by Émile Stern and her song shared first place along with the entries from the Netherlands, the UK, and Spain. Cent mille chansons was recorded in 1968 and earned her a Gold disc, while Un jour, un enfant earned her a Platinum disc, Un monde en sarabande and La prière. In the late 1960s, she also recorded Un pays pour nous, leonard Bernstein, who composed the original melody, declared that Boccaras version was his favorite. Boccara renewed her links with Eurovision by participating in the French national finals of 1980 – performing Un enfant de France – and 1981 – with Voilà comment je taime

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Guy Bonnet
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Guy Bonnet is an author, composer, and singer, born in Avignon, France in 1945. He wrote the lyrics and composed the music for the French entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1968, in 1970 he participated in the Eurovision song contest for France with Marie-Blanche coming 4th out of twelve contestants. In 1983 he represented France in Eurovision again with Vivre and he wrote and composed songs for many artists including Mireille Mathieu, Sylvie Vartan, Franck Fernandel and Massilia Sound System. He has also written a contemporary pastorale La Pastorale des enfants de Provence

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Dan Ar Braz
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Dan Ar Braz is a Breton guitarist-singer-composer and the founder of Héritage des Celtes, a 50-piece Pan-Celt band. Leading guitarist in Celtic music, Dan Ar Braz has recorded as a soloist and he represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 1996. At the age of 13, Daniel Le Bras obtained his first guitar after teaching himself how to play, inspired by guitarists like Hank Marvin, Bert Jansch, daniels father insisted that he study catering instead of music. At the age of 17, he performed locally in Bal-musette, interpreting folk-rock songs by Donovan, Van Morrison, in 1967, Dan met Breton harpist and singer Alan Stivell who invited him to join his group. Alan Stivell and his musicians embraced Breton, Scottish, and Irish music, alans father had made a reconstruction of the ancient Breton harp in 1953, and Alan learned to play the harp, bagpipes, and Irish flute. Stivell opened Dans eyes to the possibilities of Celtic music and its proximity with rock, Stivell rebranded Daniel Le Bras as Dan Ar Bras to show that he belonged to Breton culture rather than French culture. In 1971, with Pop Plinn, for the first time music was put in service for a traditional Breton dance song. After a successful tour in France in 1972–73, Breton Music was undergoing a revival and they traveled around Europe, North America, at the same time in 1972, Dan Ar Bras formed his own group called Mor. Compared to Stivells group, this was the middle-of-the-road and it shortly after recording one album, Stations. In 1976, Braz relocated to Oxfordshire and joined the band Fairport Convention and he changed his name to Dan Ar Braz, and for about a year he toured with Fairport but did not record any studio albums with them. This experience was allowing him to cot for long-term Anglophone musicians, homesick for Brittany, Dan releases in 1977 an instrumental progressive folk album, Douar Nevez. In three years, he record three Celtic music solo-albums, by this time, he was making sales in the United States. Braz released an album of Irish jigs and reels in 1979, entitled Irish Reels, Jigs, Hornpipes and Airs with a band featuring Davey Graham, Dave Evans. It was not commercially successful, and for years, Braz seemed to turn his back on Celtic music. In 1981, he toured Europe promoting his album Acoustic, a collection of instrumentals. He then joined a blues-rock trio, between 1984 and 1987, he toured the United States over a dozen times. By the time he recorded Musiques pour les silences à venir in 1985, after making another instrumental album, he moved in a new direction by recording a collection of songs in English, Songs. Most were written by him, plus one each by Richard Thompson and he teamed up with John Kirkpatrick to record a film score in 1992

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Jonatan Cerrada
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Jonatan Cerrada is a Belgian-born singer who became the first French Pop Idol. He has had hit singles across Western Europe especially in France, Belgium, and Spain. Jonatan was born in Liège, Belgium, and grew up in the city of Ans with his four siblings and his Spanish parents María Victoria Moreno, a secretary, and Valentín Cerrada, a mechanical technician. He was eight years old when he entered the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège where he stayed until age fourteen and he speaks fluent French and Spanish. Jonatan is the winner in the first season of A La Recherche De La Nouvelle Star. Soon after winning the competition, he released his debut single Je voulais te dire que je tattends, a revival of a song originally by Michel Jonasz and his debut album, Siempre 23, was released after that and was successful across France and Belgium. He represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 singing a ballad song, À chaque pas. He was invited to star as a guest role in the Spanish comedy/drama Un Paso Adelante and it was also aired in France with French dubbing, and he dubbed his own lines. He sang the soundtrack for the French edition of the film Robots - Mon Paradis, soon after that, his second album La Preuve du contraire was released. In September 2005, Libre comme lair was released only in Belgium, in March 2006, it was confirmed his next single was to be Ne men veux pas which appeared on La Preuve du contraire as a duet with Ophélie Cassy. A new solo version was recorded but was never released, in February 2007, a year after his latest single Ruban noir became a major download hit without any specific promotion. It is sung partly in Spanish and is about the 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings, instead, he started working on a Spanish album as independently. In May 2007, he created a new MySpace site Tercero, showcasing songs, all sung in Spanish, with a distinct Latin, in July 2007, he signed up to the Sellaband website aiming to find believers willing to buy parts the recording of his third album. Regularly appearing in the top three of Sellabands charts, he managed to collect $25,000, before deciding to leave the website in October 2007 and he stated that even though he had written the lyrics, he was not the composer of his proposed songs. The composer did not wish to give a percentage of earnings to Sellaband and was unwilling to proceed and his Sellaband blog also revealed his disappointment at being dropped by a major record company. On Sellaband, his profile, blog and updates were in English, Siempre 23, released on 15 September 2003. Reached number 7 in the French charts, La Preuve du contraire, released on 13 June 2005. Reached number 23 in French chart, Tercero, previously collected believers for this project on Sellaband

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Anne-Marie David
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Anne-Marie David is a French singer. She has represented two different countries at the Eurovision Song Contest, David was born and raised in Arles. She started her career at age 18 in Paris when she became involved with musical theatre. In 1972, she was cast in the role of Mary Magdalene in the French production of Jesus Christ Superstar,1972 also saw her submit the song Un peu romantique to the French selection committee for the Eurovision Song Contest. It made the final shortlist of ten songs, in 1973, she was selected to represent Luxembourg as the Grand Duchy sought to repeat its previous years triumph on home soil in the Eurovision Song Contest. She thus joined the long list of performers to have represented the country in the contest. Ultimately six points separated the third place from David, securing the second triumph for Luxembourg. After the contest, she started touring the world and she lived in Turkey for a while, recorded two singles in Turkish and one album and received several awards in the country. She returned to Eurovision in the 1979 contest held in Jerusalem, once again it was a tight three-way finish, with the Israeli entry Hallelujah edging to a home victory. She started to tour France in the 1980s, between 1982 and 1983, she continued her musical career in Norway. In 1987, she retired from music but returned in 2003, in 2005, she sang at the festival for the 50th anniversary of the Eurovision Song Contest, staged in Copenhagen, where she performed the 1972 Eurovision winner Après toi. She attended the music show of Turkish Radio Television before the 2009 Eurovision Final was aired live. According to ESCRadio. com, in 2011, Anne Marie released a new revamped version of her 1973 winning song, aptly named “Tu Te Reconnaîtras ”

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Les Fatals Picards
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Les Fatals Picards is a French rock/punk band, founded in 1996. The Fatals Picards are best known to audiences because they represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with the song LAmour à la française. The lyrics of the Fatals Picards are often of a parodic or humoristic character, though some songs, some of their songs are satiric, Lenterrement de Derrick, about the namesake character of the German police TV series Derrick. Le jour de la mort de Johnny, about French rock singer Johnny Hallyday, the Fatals Picards and Johnny Hallyday were both at the same record company, Warner Bros. Cure Toujours, about Goth youth imitating the looks and appreciating the music of The Cure, the guitar and vocals are reminiscent of Indochine. Sauvons Vivendi, parody of songs from e. g. Band Aid that attempt raising awareness about humanitarian causes, but in this case, calling for help for the industrial and financial group Vivendi and stock traders. Monter le Pantalon, parody of Tomber la chemise by Zebda, Bernard Lavilliers, satirizing the image of French singer Bernard Lavilliers as a former adventurer active in South America, who has seen it all. Cest lhistoire dune meuf, parody of the video for a song by humanitarian band les Enfoirés, the Fatals Picards accuse some of the singers in that band of being in there only to restart a flagging career. Chasse, pêche et biture, a jab at hunters, accused of being drunk too often, the title is also a jab at the fringe political party Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Tradition. Boum parodies the songs from French rock band Superbus, je viens dici, satire of alleged bigotry in Corsica. Et puis merde, je vote à droite, a man discovers that he prefers voting right-wing and they finished 22nd overall in 24 finalists. Laurent Honel, guitar/singing/bass Jean-Marc Sauvagnargues, Drums Paul Léger, Lead Singer Yves Giraud, bass Former member Ivan Callot, navet Maria - Next Music - Droit de véto - Next Music - Picardia Independenza Charting studio albums Live albums Official website

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Catherine Ferry (singer)
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Catherine Ferry is a French singer. In 1976, at the Eurovision Song Contest, Catherine Ferry represented France with the song Un, deux and she ranked second in the contest. Among the backing vocalists was Daniel Balavoine, who wrote the B side Petit Jean and she worked and was produced mainly by Daniel Balavoine a famous French singer who wrote nearly 30 songs for her. In 1977, she took part in the Yamaha Festival in Japan, in 1982, she released at WEA the song Bonjour, Bonjour. In 1983, she participated in the fairy tale Abbacadabra by Alain Boublil based on ABBAs songs. Balavoine died in 1986, having failed to finish the French lyrics of an originally written for Frida of Abba. Jean-Jacques Goldman wrote the lyrics of Quelquun Quelque part, Ferry then took time off to have a family. In spring 2010, things have come full circle, Catherine Ferry came back to Geneva to record her new single Petit Jean with John Woolloff, the guitar player of the late Daniel Balavoine. As her songs became cult favourites, one of them,1,2,3, was selected to appear in the new movie Potiche, by French director François Ozon, starring Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu

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Patrick Fiori
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Patrick Fiori is a French singer. Fiori was born to a French-Armenian father and a Corsican mother in Marseille and his fathers family were escapees of the Armenian Genocide. In 1993, Fiori came fourth place in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Mama Corsica, the following year, his first album was released, entitled Puisque cest lheure. His successful audition for the musical Notre Dame de Paris enabled him to originate the role of Phoebus both onstage and in the recording studio, with Daniel Lavoie and Garou, he recorded the song Belle. The following year, Patrick signed a contract with Sony and recorded his 3rd album Prends Moi, Patrick finally decided to end his role in Notre Dame de Paris in the year 2000 in order to dedicate more time to his fourth album, Chrysalide. Two years after, his album was released and in 2008 the album Les choses de la vie was released, followed by the most recent album Linstinct masculin. His 2007 single 4 Mots sur un piano was number one in the French charts for two weeks, aCharted on the Belgian Ultratip chart. Fiori is a member of the Les Enfoirés charity ensemble since 1999, official website Biography of Patrick Fiori, from Radio France Internationale CorsicArmenia

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Patricia Kaas
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Patricia Kaas is a French singer an actress. Her music is a mix of pop, cabaret, jazz, since the appearance of her 1988 debut album, Mademoiselle chante. Kaas has sold over 17 million records worldwide and she had her greatest success in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, Russia, Finland, Ukraine, and Korea with her third album Je te dis vous. In 2002, Kaas made her debut in And now. Ladies and Gentlemen with Jeremy Irons and she represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia, and finished in eighth place. Patricia Kaas was born as the youngest of her family on 5 December 1966 in Forbach, Lorraine, France and her father, Joseph Kaas, was a French Germanophone and her mother, Irmgard, was a German citizen from Saar. Kaas grew up in Stiring-Wendel, between Forbach and Saarbrücken on the French side of the border, until the age of six she spoke only Lorraine Franconian. Her mother encouraged Kaas to become a singer at a young age. Her first great success came when she received first place at a pop song contest, Kaas took her first step into the professional music business at the age of 13, when, with the help of her brother Egon, she signed a contract with the Saarbrücken Club Rumpelkammer. Kaas took the name Pady Pax, after the brass band Pax Majorettes from Stiring-Wendel, of which she and her sister Carine were members, at 16 she took a placement with a model agency in Metz. Her first attempts to break into the business once and for all initially failed, however. Kaas producer at this time was the architect Bernard Schwartz, in 1985, Kaas was dax sponsored by the French actor Gérard Depardieu at the age of 19. Schwartz saw her singing at the Rumpelkammer in Saarbrücken and introduced her to the songwriter François Bernheim, Bernheim worked with her and convinced Depardieu to produce her music. Depardieu produced Kaas first single Jalouse, written by Bernheim and Depardieus wife Elisabeth, the single was published by EMI, but was a flop. Nonetheless, her encounter with Depardieu was one of the most important events in the beginning of Kaas artistic career, through Jalouse and Bernheim the French songwriter Didier Barbelivien became aware of Kaas. His song Mademoiselle chante le blues was the singers first big hit, the single was published in 1987 by Polydor, and reached 7th place in the French singles chart. The next year Kaas second single DAllemagne was recorded, written by Barbelivien, shortly afterwards Kaas first album Mademoiselle chante. was produced. It reached 2nd place in the French album charts and stayed there for two months, remaining in the Top 10 for 64 weeks and 118 weeks in the top 100, shortly after its appearance the album went gold in France and after three months it went platinum

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Guy Mardel
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Guy Mardel is a French singer, best known for his participation in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest. Mardel lived his first 15 years in Algeria before moving to France in 1959 and he later enrolled in law school, while singing recreationally with a jazz band. At the contest, held in Naples on 20 March, Navoue jamias finished in place of the 18 entries. Mardel was unable to capitalise on his Eurovision success, despite releasing many singles until the 1980s, in the 1970s he moved into record production, setting up his own record label, MM, in 1977. Discography and cover art at encyclopédisque. fr

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Jessy Matador
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Jessy Kimbangi, better known by his stage name Jessy Matador, is a French -Congolese singer. Born in Paris, the 27 October 1983, Matador began his career as a dancer in 2001 and he later joined the group Les cœurs brisés with whom he toured the United States, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Kingdom, Italy and Canada. In 2005, he decided to create his own group called La Sélésao composed of members Dr. Love, Linho, the same members also formed the first edition of the group Magic System. In late 2007, they signed with Oyas Records before signing with Wagram Records in spring 2008 and they released their début single Décalé Gwada in June 2008, becoming one of the hits of that summer. On 24 November 2008 the group released the album Afrikan New Style, the style includes influences of zouk, dancehall, reggae, hip hop, Coupé-Décalé, ndombolo and kuduro. In December 2008, they released their second single Mini Kawoulé, Jessy Matador placed 12th in the final, which was one of Frances better results in the 2000s

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Karen Matheson
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Karen Matheson OBE is a Scottish folk singer, who frequently sings in Scottish Gaelic. She is lead singer of the group Capercaillie and was a member of Dan Ar Brazs group LHéritage des Celtes, with whom she sang lead vocals. She and Morgan received much acclaim for their joint lead vocal on the Breton language song Diwanit Bugale and she made a cameo appearance in the 1995 movie Rob Roy singing the song Ailein duinn. She grew up in the village of Taynuilt in the region of Argyll. She was appointed an OBE in the 2006 New Years honours list, Matheson also appeared as a guest musician on Spirit of the Wests 1997 album Weights and Measures. Matheson performed a solo in Secret Gardens song Prayer in the 1999 album Dawn of a New Century and she is married to fellow Capercaillie member Donald Shaw, and they have a son named Hector and a daughter named Kate. On 16 October 2015, Karen Matheson released her solo album, Urram. In support of the new album, Karen Matheson is due to perform 7 shows in Scotland in December 2015 and January 2016, one show in January in Dublin, Ireland and 5 shows in the UK in February 2016. The Dreaming Sea Time to Fall Downriver Urram Karen Mathesons website BBC report of 2006 honours list, including Mathesons OBE

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Jean-Paul Mauric
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Jean-Paul Mauric was a French singer, best known for his participation in the 1961 Eurovision Song Contest. From 1958, Mauric released a series of popular EPs, and in 1961 was chosen to represent France in the sixth Eurovision Song Contest, maurics uptempo song Printemps, avril carillonne finished in a respectable fourth place of the 16 entries. Maurics record releases tailed off as the 1960s progressed, but he remained a live performer. His career was cut short when he was ill in December 1970. Jean-Paul Mauric fansite Discography and cover art at encyclopédisque. fr

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Elaine Morgan (singer)
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Elaine Morgan is a Welsh folk singer. She was a member of Dan Ar Brazs group LHeritage des Celtes, Morgan and Matheson received much acclaim for their performance on the Breton-language song Diwanit Bugale, Frances entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 1996. Formed her own folk-rock band Rose among Thorns together with her husband Derek, currently involved in the running of the Rumney Folk Club in Cardiff. Has also worked with members of Fairport Convention and featured them at their annual Cropredy gathering. Elaine is the youngest of three sisters,1989, First Blush 199x, Rose Among Thorns 199x, This Time Its Real 199x, Butterfly Dreams 1996, Highlights 2002, Shine On Official Website

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Marie Myriam
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Marie Myriam is a French singer of Portuguese descent. Representing France, she won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1977 with Loiseau et lenfant with music by Jean Paul Cara, the single reached #42 in the UK Singles Chart in June 1977. In 1981, Myriam also represented France in the Yamaha Music Festival with the song Sentimentale, in recent years, she has read out the votes of the French Jury at the Eurovision Song Contest. Myriam made an appearance at the 50th anniversary concert in Copenhagen, Denmark, the same year, she wrote the introduction to the French edition of The Eurovision Song Contest – The Official History by John Kennedy OConnor. Myriam was married to music producer Michel Elmosnino from the late 1970s until his death at age 67 on 20 December 2013, the marriage produced two children, Laureen and Rick

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Jean Philippe
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Jean Philippe is a French singer who represented France at the Eurovision Song Contest 1959. He returned to the contest in 1962 representing Switzerland and he was the first artist to compete representing two different countries in Eurovision. Jean Philippe with the song Oui, oui, oui, oui came third receiving 15 points, jean Philippe appeared in the 1960 film Jazz Boat in which he sang Oui, oui, oui, oui